The collective wisdom of the Internet: RSA vs. DH

By Luther Martin — March 16, 2011

While using the sucks/rocks web site to compare the popularity of the iOS that devices like the iPad use and the Andoid OS that, well, Android devices use, I stumbled across something that I found interesting. Apparently way more people like the Diffie-Hellman key exchange than like the RSA encryption algorithm. And by a huge margin. Here's what I found:

I found that somewhat surprising. I would have thought that people had a generally favorable impression of RSA and that there wouldn't be enough comments on DH for the sucks/rocks meter to say anything about it.